Teslais
an excellent study in the power of creativity
and visualization.Many say he single handedly created
the 20th century with his 700+electrical
patents, 1500 inventionsand his discovery of Alternating
Current, radio and remote control, the computer "AND" Logic Gate,the bladeless turbine and his micro-pump
(with no moving parts).His discoveries of over a century
ago are still bearing fruit to this day.

The little AC motor that started the "electrical
war" (left) and his bladeless turbine (right).

With his unique understanding of
resonance he pioneered the fields of High Frequency Currents, Electrical
Machines, Remote Control, Radio Diffusion and Measurements, Electromechanical
and Mechanical Oscillators, Electric Illumination and Electric Heating
and even applications in the field of Medicine. His inventions are
too numerous to list here and I only scratch the surface of this man's
amazing life in hopes you will seek out further
reading about him. Check
my Links Page for places to explore on other web
sites.

JP Morgan Westinghouse

What would it be like today
had Tesla been a better businessman and/or his funding from JP
Morgan not cut off? Edison
refused to pay Tesla a promised $50,000 to solve a problem Edison couldn't.
Westinghouse
couldn't afford to uphold their contract for royalties on Tesla's motor
designs (already totaling $12,000,000 within the first 4 years of production).
Tesla let all that go because he had much larger plans instore for mankind.
Sadly he trusted his supporters to see these same potentials.

Another Tesla lab, machine shop
and glass blowing facility.

Tesla, sciences "starving artist"

JP Morgan(the
financier for Tesla as well as Edison) got cold feet and withdrew funding
in 1906 when Tesla's plans forGlobal Wireless
Energy were made known. It seems
that Morgan didn't want to get stuck selling
only the antennas when he could instead control/sell
all electrical generation, it's distribution and related cash flows. In
this example lies one cause of our worlds problems, greed.

Because Tesla had the ability to
fully
visualize, test and analyze conceptsand designs within his head (in
a 3D/graphical way) few notes of high detailwere recorded, however upon Tesla's
death, agents for the US Governmentconfiscated 2 trucks full of
documents from various locations, only
asmall amount of these materials
were ever returned, due to thesecrecy status
given to them, and still in effect to this day.

Tesla's hotel room, where "agents"
seized his secrets just after his death.

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In a related story

Seattle Post Intellegencer (10/9/89),
The short story is.... a man invented a new type of hydra phone which was
so good it could convert sound impulses into audio and video signals.
He basically went broke attempting to bring his new device into the world
only to have the US Navy
slap a classified order on it (on the grounds of national
security). He was given nothing
for it (as is typical) and was ordered "NOT
TO PUBLISH OR DISCLOSE the subject matter for such a period as the national
interest requires" In other words, thanks
for the cool idea, now go away.

In the same article were some interesting
facts about secrecy
orders:

 The US Patent and Trademark Office
imposes 400 to 500 secrecy orders per
year(at
the request of the Pentagon
or Department of Energy).

 The law does not require the officials
to explain or justify why such an order is placed.

 In the fiscal year of 1987 there
were just under
5000 secrecy orders currently
in effect.

Tesla's research and associated
inventions touched on capabilitiesfar more reaching than just a better
hydraphone.

We can only wonder what marvels
are now locked awayor are being used to control rather
then to liberate this planet.

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One heck of a big noisy modern day Tesla Coil
(see the guy in the wire cage?)

My personal Tesla anecdote
is.. long ago
(1982)
the Tesla Memorial Society
of Canada gave me permission to show the movie "The
Secret of Nikola Tesla", a drama on Tesla's
life, in exchange for anything I could do to help them get a grant for
Kirlian
Photography.
Now that this video is (a bit more) available I no longer need to show
it (I could probably act out every part for you... but don't ask).
This film was a joint Hollywood/Yugoslavian effort (Zagreb Films, 1980)
with such great US actors as Orsen Wells
(J.P. Morgan), Struther Martin
(Westinghouse) and Dennis Patrick
(Edison), and starring (perfect look alike) Petar Bozovic as Tesla.

Though completed 20+ years ago the
movie was never released for distribution in the U.S. probably due to the
unfriendly way in which Edison (the greatest inventor of all time, or
so we are taught in school) is portrayed with his attempts to stop
Tesla's AC current
system from over-taking Edison's own
DC system.
Edison's
city by city road show was hi-lighted with public
electrocutions of stray animals (up to the
size of horses) with alternating current, but Edison failed to inform the
onlookers that his own DC system could kill as well.

In 1982 I made a beginners feeble
attempt to get it shown/broadcast in the US. I even met "producers"
(whoohoo)
in Hollywood who delt with this type of product as well as a few folks
producing current projects on Tesla ...but to no avail.

I wish this video were shown on
TV, who knows maybe someday it will, heaven knows we have enough
channels. Heck, when we all get the
bandwidth I may show it here!!

A&E Biography15th Anniversary
Special"The 15 Most
Important Inventors and Inventions of the Twentieth Century" will feature
Tesla (to air fall of 2002).

New Tesla Movie:Tesla
and KatherineFamous motion picture director,
Ken Russell, has announced filming to begin this summer on a dramatic
biography tentatively titled Tesla and Katherine. Russell, whose
cinema credits include The Rainbow, Gothic, Crimes of Passion, The Boyfriend
and French Dressing among others, is often controversial in his film treatments.
As mentioned in a March 24th article in the London Sunday Telegraph, Russell
plans to savage Edison for his ruthless tactics in opposing Tesla's Alternating
Current system in the famous "War of the Currents." The Society has provided
certain background material to the film's Producer. Cast has yet to be
announced.

Fox Television Tesla ProgramA one-hour segment of the popular
Fox series In Search Of will describe some elements of the work of Nikola
Tesla. Planning by the U.S. government to build the "Star Wars" National
Missile Defense shield has revived interest in Tesla's much earlier research
and predictions on that technology, which was popularized by the press
as "Tesla's Death-Beam" or "Death Ray." A Fox location crew visited Society
Executive Secretary, William Terbo (Tesla grand nephew), in March 2001,
to tape an on-camera interview for the program. Airdate for the program
has not been confirmed, but will probably be in the Fall 2002 schedule.

PBS Television Special Tesla: Master
Of LightningThe 90-minute multimedia biography
TESLA: MASTER OF LIGHTNING was first broadcast by PBS in December 2000.
This is the first comprehensive and accurate picture of Tesla's life and
accomplishments to be presented to the national audience. The project is
the result of years of research during which many new and unknown details
of Tesla's life have been uncovered. The documentary contains a large
and extremely rare collection of photographs of his life and work, including
recreations of some of his inventions. The voice of Tesla is performed
by veteran stage and screen actor, Stacy Keach, himself a great admirer
of Tesla's work and personality.

Sales of home video cassettes and
companion book of the program are available through the PBS website: www.pbs.org

Nikola Tesla Links and Information Sources

The list below contains other
web sources which sell or describe Tesla related
materials. Enjoy your research!His story is amazing!

http://www.yale.edu/scimag/Archives/Vol71/Tesla.htmlThanks to John Wagner (see T-Shirt
offer below) Yale University is recognizing Tesla and his accomplishments.
Read this Tesla article in the Yale Scientific Magazine (Vol. 71 Issue
4) and see the bust of Tesla on permanent display at Yale.

http://www.ntesla.org
(new)John Wagners Tesla page(and great T-Shirt offer)John has guided the ongoing effort
to place bronze busts of Tesla in the nation's leading Universities.
The latest addition is at the University of Wisconsin, where it is placed
in the Physics Museum next to busts of Newton and Einstein. Previous installations
were at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, Cal Tech and the University of Michigan.
Funding for the busts, each valued at $6,000, was developed by years of
letter campaigns and T-shirt sales conducted by students of Mr. Wagner's
in Ann Arbor. (Publicity generated by the popular rock band Tesla was also
a great assist.)